Not entirely true. DC games are not easy to "backup." Your originals will not be copyable through conventional means and even if you do copy the files in a game, they'll need to be cracked and probably modified to run under a standard ISO9660 FS.
They're easy to "backup" because of a small group of people who cracked the games. Their efforts were possible because of a loophole in Sega's MIL-CD format allowed a game's contents--burned onto CD-R--to be recognized by the console. Copying these "backups" is easy; copying real originals is hard.
Yeah, well, if you were to record stuff, you would probably place your mic far away enough from the iPod to not record its hard disk. Since there's no internal mic, this shouldn't be a big problem unless your headphone's (mic's) cable is very short.
Inserts may be missing, or trashed. CDs may be scratched/mishandled, or title not available. Face it: it's a crapshoot with used CDs and there is a downside to them. I purchase used DVDs as well, but I do not buy 'em for professionally printed inserts--I buy them for the discs' contents.
I would speculate that it took more effort on Apple's part to make deals with the music and credit card industries than putting the software/infrastructure together. Especially with WebCore available, it was probably quite simple to leverage off the framework than it is for something like WinAmp to implement a web-browser into its interface. Looks like iTunes is a Carbon app.
I use my American Express private payments number, which expires in 1 month. Sure, the system will keep the number in its database, but it's only good for two uses or 1 month, which ever comes first.
I wasn't able to register until I read on Macintouch that your id has to be your email address--firstname lastname doesn't work and will result with a generic error.
One of the first things one should do is archive/burn stuff that's downloaded online as a backup measure. With these songs, I would say one of the first things one should do is to burn them to CD. There is unlimited CD burning after all. Why not take advantage of it?
Have read elsewhere (sorry, no references) that professionals have been using sampling rates greater than 44.1, perhaps 97Khz at 24-bit for a "while"--I interpret it as 2-5 years--for their masters and downsample to 44.1/16.
Actually, what's seen in the real world is the parts of the whole are worth more than the whole itself, so you're lucky to even pay $1 per song rather than $2. Go ahead and buy a car from a dealer versus buy a car from their parts department and compare the price.
Maybe in the future, they'll release songs only through the web and not on the CDs and charge more than $1 for those special selections.
I use Verizon as my cell phone carrier. On one hand, I like what they're doing here (most probably in their best interest); but I don't like them for sandbagging the proposal which allows cellphone customers in the U.S. to keep their numbers when they switch carriers.
NeXT's workstation slabs worked kinda along these lines. Although the CPU was not attached to the case, the case worked like a heat sink. It had fins running along the underside of the case from front to back with a fan mounted at the front, pushing air out the back along the vertical slits.
Here's a site (lower right-hand corner)
with a picture.
I was disappointed to read that their system has a fan at the top of the system that aids in taking the heat away. So much for a silent pumpless system.
Yes sir. HP calculators are made very well. One of the things that made them special are that the faces of the keys will not have their labels rubbed off (just the main one, not the top/bottom ones) because they're not decals, but are actually plastic in another color, combined with their backgrounds.
My 11C has been with me for around 20 years and still going strong, on its 2nd set of batteries. One of those rare products that says "USA" in the back and is worthy of those letters. Sure don't make 'em like they used to.
Nope. I've been buying LDs for about 5 years before DVDs came out and I have many single-disc titles in the $30 range. If you paid $45 a title, you purchased at the wrong place. I also have around 20 or so boxed sets that are way beyond $50.
LDs take up a lot of room, but they are not a daunting format to handle. The rotation noise is not an issue on my old CLD-D704 and DVL-909.
Biggest problem with LDs was not with clean rooms but the bad glue that bonded between the two sides, which would either eat or allow air to oxidize the aluminum, causing laser rot (multi-colored snow especially across the letter box bars where no snow should exist). Of course, almost all my "prized" titles were pressed in Japan by either Kuraray or Pioneer so they play as well as the first day I bought them.
Not sure if it's "lame-ass" or not, but I feel the title looks great with no artifacts. Better to be safe than sorry. And it's a dual-layer disc. Overall, I'm very happy with it.
Can you site a reference where 5Mb is adequate for anime?
That's false. Laserdisc in its heyday cost around $25-$35 per title. Hardly $50/title. Only when you get into special edition boxed sets did you have to pay through the nose. My copy of the definitive edition of Star Wars was around $250.
It's interesting how Frankston talks about skidding. Since VisiCalc has a typeahead buffer, he did not buffer the arrow keys which prevented overshooting a destination on the slow Apple II.
I find this interesting because NeXTstep had a terrible problem with typeahead when it came to scrolling in almost any application. It's a good thing those guys fixed it for OS X. At least it seems to have been fixed for OS X.
I don't use Samba, but I wish Apple would release a patch through Software Update but to date they have not. Their decision not to is based on the fact that Samba is not enabled by default. Well, if someone uses it they're screwed or they either need to turn off the service or patch it manually. Managers should not have to work harder on OS X--Apple should be on top of it and let OS X users/managers know their distribution is secure and easy-to-use.
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Not entirely true. DC games are not easy to "backup." Your originals will not be copyable through conventional means and even if you do copy the files in a game, they'll need to be cracked and probably modified to run under a standard ISO9660 FS. They're easy to "backup" because of a small group of people who cracked the games. Their efforts were possible because of a loophole in Sega's MIL-CD format allowed a game's contents--burned onto CD-R--to be recognized by the console. Copying these "backups" is easy; copying real originals is hard.
Yeah, well, if you were to record stuff, you would probably place your mic far away enough from the iPod to not record its hard disk. Since there's no internal mic, this shouldn't be a big problem unless your headphone's (mic's) cable is very short.
Inserts may be missing, or trashed. CDs may be scratched/mishandled, or title not available. Face it: it's a crapshoot with used CDs and there is a downside to them. I purchase used DVDs as well, but I do not buy 'em for professionally printed inserts--I buy them for the discs' contents.
And then you have gasoline in the U.S. $2.11/gallon is really $2.119/gallon.
Quite right. My bad.
I would speculate that it took more effort on Apple's part to make deals with the music and credit card industries than putting the software/infrastructure together. Especially with WebCore available, it was probably quite simple to leverage off the framework than it is for something like WinAmp to implement a web-browser into its interface. Looks like iTunes is a Carbon app.
I use my American Express private payments number, which expires in 1 month. Sure, the system will keep the number in its database, but it's only good for two uses or 1 month, which ever comes first.
I wasn't able to register until I read on Macintouch that your id has to be your email address--firstname lastname doesn't work and will result with a generic error.
One of the first things one should do is archive/burn stuff that's downloaded online as a backup measure. With these songs, I would say one of the first things one should do is to burn them to CD. There is unlimited CD burning after all. Why not take advantage of it?
Have read elsewhere (sorry, no references) that professionals have been using sampling rates greater than 44.1, perhaps 97Khz at 24-bit for a "while"--I interpret it as 2-5 years--for their masters and downsample to 44.1/16.
You can't conclude that it's more efficient due to the codec used. Probably the electronics have been updated to be more energy-frugal.
Actually, what's seen in the real world is the parts of the whole are worth more than the whole itself, so you're lucky to even pay $1 per song rather than $2. Go ahead and buy a car from a dealer versus buy a car from their parts department and compare the price.
Maybe in the future, they'll release songs only through the web and not on the CDs and charge more than $1 for those special selections.
I use Verizon as my cell phone carrier. On one hand, I like what they're doing here (most probably in their best interest); but I don't like them for sandbagging the proposal which allows cellphone customers in the U.S. to keep their numbers when they switch carriers.
Kentucky Fried Chicken thought so. :)
New tag line: It's spelled Daawtrtdfw but pronounced Phoenix. Hell, I sure can't pronounce how it's spelled.
NeXT's workstation slabs worked kinda along these lines. Although the CPU was not attached to the case, the case worked like a heat sink. It had fins running along the underside of the case from front to back with a fan mounted at the front, pushing air out the back along the vertical slits. Here's a site (lower right-hand corner) with a picture.
I was disappointed to read that their system has a fan at the top of the system that aids in taking the heat away. So much for a silent pumpless system.
Yes sir. HP calculators are made very well. One of the things that made them special are that the faces of the keys will not have their labels rubbed off (just the main one, not the top/bottom ones) because they're not decals, but are actually plastic in another color, combined with their backgrounds.
My 11C has been with me for around 20 years and still going strong, on its 2nd set of batteries. One of those rare products that says "USA" in the back and is worthy of those letters. Sure don't make 'em like they used to.
Nope. I've been buying LDs for about 5 years before DVDs came out and I have many single-disc titles in the $30 range. If you paid $45 a title, you purchased at the wrong place. I also have around 20 or so boxed sets that are way beyond $50.
LDs take up a lot of room, but they are not a daunting format to handle. The rotation noise is not an issue on my old CLD-D704 and DVL-909.
Biggest problem with LDs was not with clean rooms but the bad glue that bonded between the two sides, which would either eat or allow air to oxidize the aluminum, causing laser rot (multi-colored snow especially across the letter box bars where no snow should exist). Of course, almost all my "prized" titles were pressed in Japan by either Kuraray or Pioneer so they play as well as the first day I bought them.
Not sure if it's "lame-ass" or not, but I feel the title looks great with no artifacts. Better to be safe than sorry. And it's a dual-layer disc. Overall, I'm very happy with it.
Can you site a reference where 5Mb is adequate for anime?
What title is it? My R2 copy of Macross hovers anywhere from 8-10Mb most of the time.
That's false. Laserdisc in its heyday cost around $25-$35 per title. Hardly $50/title. Only when you get into special edition boxed sets did you have to pay through the nose. My copy of the definitive edition of Star Wars was around $250.
It's interesting how Frankston talks about skidding. Since VisiCalc has a typeahead buffer, he did not buffer the arrow keys which prevented overshooting a destination on the slow Apple II.
I find this interesting because NeXTstep had a terrible problem with typeahead when it came to scrolling in almost any application. It's a good thing those guys fixed it for OS X. At least it seems to have been fixed for OS X.
I don't use Samba, but I wish Apple would release a patch through Software Update but to date they have not. Their decision not to is based on the fact that Samba is not enabled by default. Well, if someone uses it they're screwed or they either need to turn off the service or patch it manually. Managers should not have to work harder on OS X--Apple should be on top of it and let OS X users/managers know their distribution is secure and easy-to-use.